At 07:38 PM 5/26/99 -0600, you wrote:
>The software does download a bunch of data at one time, about 250K or so, I
>think, then it analyzes it.  Once the analysis is finished, the software
>will then upload the results to the server and download the next set of
>data.
>
Also, the upload and download of data is not going to happen very often.
The program takes a lot of time to analyze one packet of data - depending
on the speed of your CPU.  If you look on the SETI@Home Web page, there are
lists of people who are analyzing data.  Many of them have taken many hours
to analyze each data packet.  Mine is only up to about 20% of the first
packet and has already taken 43 hours of CPU time.

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